“We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.” PeopleMeanGovernmentRightsProtectAreasPropertyUnwilling Author:Malcolm X
“No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.” MayMadeCountryPoliticalStrongSocialPerfectRightsProgressEconomicSeriousAreasEnormousCardsInstanceReportsImplementationLagPolitical RightsReport Cards Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.” MadeStillsRightsGayAreasCivil RightsTabooGay RightsAgeism Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation.” IfsGovernmentTechnologyEconomyRightsModernMankindResourcesAreasEconomicsSalvationPropertyCurseEnterprisePollutionStemPrivate PropertyProperty RightsPrivate EnterpriseModern Technology Author:Murray Rothbard
“Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a 'general assumption' but a rule of law. States rights mean that states have a right to act or not to act, as they see fit, in areas reserved to them.” MeanTwoStatesTodayLawPartyPrinciplesRightsFitCommitmentAreasMeaningfulAssumptionAmendmentsRule Of LawReservedStates Rights Author:Barry Goldwater
“[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?” ShouldFirstsImportantBehindsRightsDoorsAreasAmendmentsExecutionFirst AmendmentClosed DoorsBehind Closed DoorsFirst Amendment Rights Author:Phil Donahue
“My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law and rights. Questions about what rights are "alienable" or not, loose talk about how promises should be "binding," etc., highlight the need for clarity in this area. In my view, to sort these issues out one needs a very clear and consistent understanding of the nature of property rights and ownership.” NeedsShouldHas BeensLawUnderstandingViewsIssuesClearRightsTheoryPromiseApproachAreasPropertyClarityConsistentEtcConceptionContractsMainstreamOwnershipProperty RightsBindingHighlights Author:Stephan Kinsella
“Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work, women do women's work, and so it all gets done and the jackals can't get into the hut and eat grandpa. So, the future of the transgender movement is like the future of all human rights movements: whatever the state of things in your area now, with some work it all gets a little bit better all the time, even if it is sometimes three steps ahead and two steps back.” IfsMenHumansLittlesTwoSometimesStatesDoneThreeBitsStepsRightsMovementOceanLittle BitSurvivalAreasFolksHuman RightsGenderWorking ItTransgenderKenyaGrandpaHutsTanzaniaJackals Author:Kate Bornstein
“I didn't have song rights for the first video because I didn't know that it was going to do what it did. So for the second video, I decided better safe than sorry. It is a really gray area as to whether or not you even need song rights to make a video like that.” KnowsNeedsFirstsSongRightsSafeAreasDecidedSorryVideoGrayGray Area Author:Judson Laipply
“Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.” ThinkingHas BeensStillsLightConsciousnessGoneRightsAreasDressesMedicalCivil RightsLegacyPhenomenonLeapMarijuanaSixtySuperficialRehearsalMedical MarijuanaCounterculture Author:Tom Robbins
“Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.” DifferentWould BeFightingPerfectCreativityRightsEconomicAreasDeterminationImportanceCrisisBillsFinanceChairsHostWomens RightsCommitteesTenacityEconomic Crisis Author:Eleanor Smeal